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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

RIP Jean Claude Deret

Death of Jean-Claude Deret, writer Thierry La Fronde

By Armelle Heliot

December 13, 2016

Comedian, lyricist and interpreter of insolent and tender
songs, the father of Zabou Breitman died at the age of 95 years.We had seen him again at the
Poche-Montparnasse.His family and
friends will say goodbye Saturday December 17th at the Père-Lachaise.

"We can do
everything.All.We must be convinced, "he said to his
daughter Isabella.He was a tender,
profound, malicious, and highly cultivated man. Jean-Claude Deret passed away
in peace, after a long life entirely devoted to enchant the lives of others.

He was an
imaginative and poetic spirit, distant from any ambition of noisy success, a
very original and endearing being.

After the war,
Claude Breitman, born on July 11, 1921, in a family of the secular Russian
bourgeoisie of Jewish culture, a scholarly family - one of his grandfathers was
a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst - chose a stage name: Jean -Claude Deret.He had seen one of his ancestors
deported.He was suffering from a
certain antisemitic atmosphere.And he
was not wrong because years later, Zabou had to wipe away the odious remarks of
a producer.

In his family, we
make music, we sing.After the war,
Jean-Claude Deret wrote his first texts, composed the music and interpreted it
in the cabarets of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, notably at the Rose Rouge.He is a singer-songwriter, but also an actor.

The beautiful province

Jean-Claude Deret
is the author of the original idea of ​​"Thierry La Fronde", 52
episodes that will make France vibrate, dialogues.Glory?No.He never looked for her

In 1950, he
decided to cross the Atlantic for Belle Province. In Quebec, he will become
known as a sensitive and profound actor, at ease in very different registers,
on television and in theater.

It is there that
he meets his wife, actress too.They
returned to France where Isabelle was born October 30, 1959. Jean-Claude Deret
immersed himself in what will be a moment a comfortable life for the whole
family: it creates Thierry La Fronde!Ah!Jean-Claude Drouot on
horseback, ah!The credits of Jacques
Loussier, the jazzman from Algiers!Jean-Claude Deret is the author of the original idea, the 52 episodes
that will make France vibrate, dialogues.Glory?No.He never looked for her.

Isabelle, we
already called Zabou in the family, little girl plays in Thierry La
Fronde!His parents settled near Blois,
and in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, Jean-Claude Deret founded an amateur theater
company, Le Théâtre du cercle.

He writes books
for the youth, notably polars, and continues to chisel his songs, often
naughty.Insolent and joyful songs that
Zabou had assembled two years ago for a homage in his presence to this very
poetic father.He himself had sung.It was in April, two years ago, in
Poche-Montparnasse where Philippe Tesson hosted this delightful evening, with
Vadim Sher on the piano and a whole bunch of friends to sing with Jean-Claude
Deret his songs.

From drawing to
cooking

Amusing texts,
very well written, insolent, provocative cocooning, pretty melodies, he had
talent Jean-Claude Deret.He had been a
fiery young man, he had become a charming old man with his hair, his beard, his
white mustache, his high forehead, his deep, sparkling gaze, and his very
well-timed voice.

Zabou Breitman
always remembered with tenderness his youth.In 68, his parents are in the Latin Quarter.She did not forget the Sorbonne and all the
dreams and the sharing of then.Her
father influenced her a lot and taught her a lot from drawing to music (she
often reminded her that she was listening, huddled under the piano, playing
Chopin), from cooking to sewing, everything!This does not prevent him from having also learned from his mother!

When, later, Zabou
writes her films, she sometimes does it with this beloved father, admired.And Jean-Claude Deret has he participated in
the scenario of Beautiful Memories and he plays in some films Zabou.

Jean-Claude Deret
continues to write.Often for young
audiences.In 2006, Samuel its part in
the island is played over a hundred times and named Molières.

Saturday morning,
December 17, at 10:00 am, at the Crematorium of Père-Lachaise, his family, his
relatives, the large circle of his friends, will bid farewell.There will be music, songs.Everyone will have a tight heart.But there will also be something of that
particular joy that Jean-Claude Deret shared in chosen words and aerial music.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.